The EDPB welcomes improvements made by US authorities, but still finds a number of concerns need to be addressed.
European Council to discuss new ePrivacy proposal text
The Finnish presidency aims to reach an agreement by the end of 2019 after previous presidencies have failed to do so.
European Court of Justice rules against a global application of the right to be forgotten
The ruling means Google will not have to delist results from its search engine globally and calls into question how far Euroe’s digital rules will spread to the rest of the world.
EC to propose detailed regulation of facial recognition
The Commission is planning new laws on Artificial Intelligence, strengthening the rights of the GDPR amid recent high-profile scrutiny of facial recognition.
The US FTC hits Facebook with a $5bn fine
The US Federal Trade Commission also required the company to establish an independent privacy committee.
AT&T stops selling location data to aggregators in the US; T-Mobile to follow
EU Council ministers push e-Privacy Regulation proposals into 2019
The Telecommunications, Transport and Energy ministers are yet to have ironed out their disagreements on the proposed Regulation
US Senate hears from tech companies on safeguards for consumer data privacy
The Commerce Committee of the US Senate heard representatives of Amazon, Apple, AT&T, Google, Twitter, and Charter Communications (which provides internet and cable TV services under the Spectrum brand)
